Force: Navy
Ted Forshner was born on December 13, 1922 in Humbolt SK. Two older brothers, Mort and Robert, also served in WW II. The family moved to Edmonton AB, then to Prince Albert, and to Mildred SK. Joining the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942, Ted sailed on the ship Corvett HMCS Longbranch along the North Atlantic route. He was discharged on December 9, 1945. As a Cat operator, he worked in Pine Point in 1948. The next year he drove his Enfield motorcycle from Edmonton to Sunset House where his brothers Mort and Bob were homesteading. He admired the area, but continued with road construction for a couple of years in Southern Alberta, and Valleyview to White Court. Finally in 1951 he filed on land in Sunset House: E ½-25-71-20-W5th, and he built a log cabin there which would be his home base between jobs. That winter, Ted worked by Slave Lake, clearing bush. In the summer, he cleared his own land and began farming. One day in town, he met a fellow Navy veteran, who had a sister, Sally MacIntyre, a registered nurse. Ted and Sally married in 1957. They moved to where his construction jobs were – at one time he was working on Rogers Pass when they lived in Golden BC. Shortly before their daughter, Debbie was born in 1960, they returned to live on their farm. In 1961 they build a new house, and Sally was employed at the new Valleyview hospital. Sadly, Sally became ill, and passed away in April 1969. Ted was a licensed guide for big game hunting, and hunted sheep, goats, Grizzly bears, elk and moose along the Little Smoky River. He also enjoyed fishing. In later years, he acquired another half section of land and grew legumes and grain crops. Often he travelled back to Saskatchewan to visit his other siblings.
Source: Valleyview – Where the Red Willow Grew p. 303 – name in Roll of Honour
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